Senties said patrol officers were dispatched to the complex on an emergency call about a shooting. When they arrived, a woman told them a man was in the back of the complex firing a gun. The officers found the man. He was lying on the ground and wounded in the leg. The officers found another man in his apartment wounded in the forearm.

Investigators later pieced together what had happened. Senties said the 22-year-old man with the leg wound had been screaming at a group of people outside at the complex. Then he opened fire on the group. A 23-year-old man in the group was wounded in the forearm when he ran away as the shooting started. He scrambled to his apartment and called 911.

Senties said someone in the group fired back at the gunman, wounding him in the leg.

The man with the leg wound was rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital. His wound is non life-threatening. He is expected to be charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The man wounded in the arm was treated at the scene and is expected to survive.

Police did not release details about what led to the confrontation or the shooting. No description of the person who wounded the man in the leg was available.